James Corbett traces the oil industry's rise from a Pennsylvania drilling boom to a force that shapes medicine, agriculture, education, and foreign policy. The film centers on John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil, following the company through its supposed breakup in 1911 into the web of successor firms, foundations, and family interests that Corbett argues kept its influence intact. Archival photographs, newspaper clippings, and period film are cut together with Corbett's own narration, which walks through the creation of the American medical establishment, the funding of university curricula, and the petrochemical basis of modern farming, tying each back to oil money. The Federal Reserve, the World Health Organization, and the Green Revolution all get folded into the argument as evidence of a single lineage of control stretching from nineteenth-century kerosene refining to twenty-first-century geopolitics. It is built entirely from Corbett's research and delivery rather than outside interviews, so the case rests on how convincingly he connects the documents he presents.